Ask HN: Good engineer, bad grades in undergrad. How do I get back into academia?

Re:Ask HN: Good engineer, bad grades in undergrad. How do I ... by RogerL on Monday August 03, 2015 @10:10AM (#9995899)

This is math/CS. You don't need a particle accelerator to generate results, just a pencil, paper, and a computer. Do research, get published. That's the currency that matters in academia, and that is what will make a professor ask you to be in their program.

If your FOSS work has publishable results, publish it.

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Re:Ask HN: Good engineer, bad grades in undergrad. How do I ... by S4M on Monday August 03, 2015 @10:56AM (#9996303)

I think you are massively underestimating the difficulties to get published in a decent journal.

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Re:Ask HN: Good engineer, bad grades in undergrad. How do I ... by jerven on Monday August 03, 2015 @11:27AM (#9996655)

At this point peerj will be fine. Peer reviewed is what matters at this point. Also find a Prof whose work you like and are interested in. See if you can use some of their published work to do something neat.

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Re:Ask HN: Good engineer, bad grades in undergrad. How do I ... by CardenB on Monday August 03, 2015 @11:17AM (#9996538)

Is it actually easy to publish work outside a lab?

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